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When the theoretical physicist Richard Feynman died, in early 1988, he left behind a maxim scrawled on the blackboard of his office at Caltech: “What I cannot create, I do not understand.” The words have been repeated often by scientists in many fields, but never so indelibly as when researchers at …

<b>Barack Obama, Bill Clinton (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Ron Frehm/Photo montage by Salon)</b><p>Progressives are told time and again that Clinton and Obama are the best their party can do. It’s a total crock<p>Thomas Frank<p>March 31, 2016 8:00am (UTC)<p>This piece originally appeared on TomDispatch.<p>[<i>This piece</i> …

Factory work was once the backbone of the middle class. Now it’s all but gone, replaced by low-paying service jobs<p>Robert Reich<p>March 17, 2016 8:30am (UTC)<p>Both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are blaming free-trade deals for the decline of working-class jobs and incomes. Are they right?<p>Clearly, …

<b>Bernie Sanders, HIllary Clinton (Reuters/Shannon Stapleton/Brian Snyder/Photo montage by Salon)</b><p>The toxicity — and falseness — of the “Bernie so white” narrative is a real stain on Democrats and the left<p>Andrew Jones<p>March 12, 2016 1:00pm (UTC)<p>Nothing this primary season in the Democratic presidential …

Members of the Republican "establishment" are finally grappling with the likelihood that their party is about to nominate Donald Trump. But they still don't understand how they brought this phenomenon on themselves.<p>Here is my suggestion to them: If you want to understand how Trump invaded your …

Millions of Americans are addicted to painkillers, with the death rate from opioid addiction doubling over the past decade, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<p>The US government is attempting to crack down on the problem. Several states have introduced stringent laws that …

Though she has not yet endorsed a presidential candidate, Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday offered some strong praise for Bernie Sanders.<p>"I'm glad @BernieSanders is out there fighting to hold big banks accountable, make our economy safer, & stop the GOP from rigging the system," she tweeted as …

After previously saying wages were "too high," Trump instead stressed Monday that they were actually "too low."<p>In the Monday-morning tweet, Trump also said that good jobs were "too few" and that people had "lost faith in our leaders."<p>The apparent shift came after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), a …

<b>Abraham Lincoln (AP/Alexander Gardner)</b><p>Too often, we settle for the idea that Lincoln fought to save a mythical union. He really fought for opportunity<p>Harold Holzer • Norton Garfinkle<p>December 26, 2015 7:00pm (UTC)<p>Excerpted from “A Just and Generous Nation: Abraham Lincoln and the Fight for American …

Beck Bennett, playing former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), at multiple points took a "desperate swipe" at front-runner Donald Trump, only to be swatted away by the real-estate mogul.<p>"Jeb, you're a very nice man, but you're basically a little girl. Folks, this is true, I got a hold of Jeb's birth …

Fifteen years after Bush vs. Gore, 15 years after the Supreme Court intervened in a presidential election, a single sentence in the majority opinion remains one of the great constitutional brainteasers in our history. If we take the sentence at face value, it's nonsensical; if we ignore it, we …

In late August 2006, John Mearsheimer and Steve Walt published a book called 'The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy', ever since life, says Mearsheimer, has been fundamentally altered.<p>"If you criticise Israel or criticise the lobby, you pay a significant price and most people are unwilling to pay …

<i>By Max Berlinger for DETAILS</i>.<p><i>(photo: Getty Images)</i><p>Do you ever think that it's kinda crazy that we can order pizza from our cellphones and yet no one can figure out how to stop (or at least slow) the inevitable march towards death? Well, you're not alone.<p>Science has been trying to figure out this …

<b>Donald Trump (AP/Paul Vernon)</b><p>Led by Donald Trump, the GOP has abandoned its traditional dogwhistles in favor of a more overt approach to racism<p>Daniel Denvir<p>November 27, 2015 1:00pm (UTC)<p>The Republican Party has put down the dogwhistle and picked up a megaphone.<p>After two Bostonians allegedly beat up …

Two of the most important trend lines in political campaign polling might be about to cross.<p>One is the rise of online polling. The other is the decline of telephone surveys because of rising costs and possibly declining quality, tied to the fact that fewer Americans are willing to participate in a …

The atom bomb took more than 10 years to go from scientific conception to reality. The next weapon of mass destruction could take much less.<p>On Thursday (Nov. 19), a special agent from the FBI met with researchers in Washington, DC to talk to a scientific panel about the risks of a powerful new …

Why is she talking like a Republican?<p>This is why Hillary Clinton makes so many progressives queasy.<p>The former secretary of state and front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination has launched a new attack on her chief rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). The subject is taxes and Sanders' …

John Schindler, the national-security columnist for the New York Observer, tweeted on Saturday: "Jihadists with Balkan small arms were shooting up France in 1995 ... got no idea why anybody is surprised by last night's horror."<p>Attackers used guns and bombs at several sites across Paris on Friday, …